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She kept open house, her side board and her
servants at the call of her friends, but she was quite capable of
withdrawing herself, without explanation, once things were moving
well, to be found later by some one who was leaving, writing letters,
fussing with her endless bills, or sending a check she could not
possibly afford to some one in want whom she happened to have heard
about. Her popularity was founded on something more substantial
than her dinners.
Clayton was liking Audrey better that night than he had ever liked
her, though even now he did not entirely approve of her. And to
the call of any woman in trouble he always responded. It occurred
to him, following her up the stairs, that not only was something
wrong with Audrey, but that it was the first time he had ever known
her to show weakness.
Chris's study was dark. She groped her way in and turned on the
lamp, and then turned and faced him.
"I'm in an awful mess, Clay," she said. "And the worst of it is,
I don't know just what sort of a mess it is.


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